Over the past few days, it has been difficult been an African immigrant, living in South Africa. There isn't any assurances of carrying out your daily activities without the fear of getting abused/assaulted by either the South African police force or citizens. Businesses and (in some cases), home residents of these immigrants have been targeted, burnt/destroyed beyond recognition.
Warning: Very graphic images. Yes those images are correct, there have been reports of immigrants, cars, businesses etc getting burnt (alive) for no just reason. From my point of view, the South Africans are just displaying selfishness and a little bit of jealousy. These immigrants pose no threat to their economy as they claim, accusing them of stealing their wealth etc. It saddens me seeing my fellow Africa brothers & sisters doing this to others. If we can treat each other like this, what message are we sending to the world.
Here's a message from Travor noah explaining clearly the reason behind this Xenophobic attcaks. It's simply a misdirection of anger towards the wrong set of individuals.
The sooner they realize that, we as Africans have to stand up for each other to protect what we have, help ourselves achieve success, the better the continent will become. It make no sense Africans killing Africans, enslaving each other, hating on each other etc. I stand against Xenophobia. South Africans need to grow up, they need to realized that they're no longer under slavery. What's your take/stand on this xenophobia issue?
I feel so sorry for people living in these conditions. It is simply... literally.. hard to live and make a living in such hostile conditions. I would understand why, so many try to leave this place. See the crucial contradiction here is that "nationalism", in terms of national identity, can be perverted into "racism" and xenophobia.
Indeed there are many precedents in history for this kind of occurrence. Sadly, if we go to other countries, we will see the same pattern over and over and over ad infinitum. Tribal identification prevails over any sense of civic mindedness. Blood is thicker than water so to speak.
At this juncture, I can only wish the people living in such my best, and hope you can leave and migrate to a more peaceful country.